Wishing all of you a warm, relaxed winter holiday. Hopefully you all are enjoying the presence of friends and family, the most important gift any of us can have.
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Just in time for Christmas Eve, a delightful paper on a new method to determine the effect of having health insurance on the demand for health care.
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Research published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that hospital care is improving for most subgroups, according to common performance measures.
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Research suggests that wider use of telemedicine can produce significant savings, largely through lower unit costs for the same services.
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A new study examines whether requiring physicians to periodically re-certify will improve quality or lower costs.
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The Commonwealth Fund examines the impact on families from increases in the cost of employment-based health insurance.
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A blog post at Health Affairs summarizes research and concludes that workplace wellness programs provide no savings.
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More prognosticating in the form of PWC's report on important health trends for 2015.
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Ernst & Young issues its regular Pulse of the Industry report regarding the state of the medical device segment.
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Oliver Wyman gives us a perspective on the future of health care which isn't too original and likely not very accurate either.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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